créationniste comme Francis Collins [fr]

La discussion dans les commentaires de Biologos n’est pas nouvelle, mais je n’arrivais pas à mettre a main dessus. Mes requêtes étaient mal formulées. En faisant le tour de certains textes de Giberson j’ai fini par tomber dessus, et je pense que ceux qui gobent les distorsions des termes du créationniste Jean Staune, créationniste comme l’actuel directeur des NIH, Francis Collins, apprécieront ces informations venant de la source, la fondation de Francis Collins, Biologos.

if you can’t spell it, mime it

Orangutans have repeatedly demonstrated the capacity to communicate by pantomiming, researchers say, usually when some dim-witted human just hasn’t gotten the message.

Via Marion’s

Hallelujah!

Organogenesis in Development

Organogenesis in Development, in ten chapters.

Current Topics in Developmental Biology, Volume 90, Pages 1-408 (2010), edited by Peter Koopman

A cover to cover reading if that means anything on an iPad.

How to Make a Heart: The Origin and Regulation of Cardiac Progenitor Cells, Stéphane D. Vincent, Margaret E. Buckingham

Vascular Development: Genetic Mechanisms and Links to Vascular Disease, John C. Chappell, Victoria L. Bautch

Lung Organogenesis, David Warburton, Ahmed El-Hashash, Gianni Carraro, Caterina Tiozzo, Frederic Sala, Orquidea Rogers, Stijn De Langhe, Paul J. Kemp, Daniela Riccardi, John Torday, Saverio Bellusci, Wei Shi, Sharon R Lubkin, Edwin Jesudason

Transcriptional Networks and Signaling Pathways that Govern Vertebrate Intestinal Development, Joan K. Heath

Kidney Development: Two Tales of Tubulogenesis, Melissa Little, Kylie Georgas, David Pennisi, Lorine Wilkinson

The Game Plan: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Mammalian Testis Development, Elanor N. Wainwright, Dagmar Wilhelm

Building Pathways for Ovary Organogenesis in the Mouse Embryo, Chia-Feng Liu, Chang Liu and, Humphrey H.-C. Yao

Vertebrate Skeletogenesis, Véronique Lefebvre, Pallavi Bhattaram

The Molecular Regulation of Vertebrate Limb Patterning, Natalie C. Butterfield, Edwina McGlinn, Carol Wicking

Eye Development, Jochen Graw

monkeynomics

Wait for the good news.

Mathematics and the Religulous Impulse

Via Jerry Coyne’s WEIT, starting with the title (“Giberson: Math works, ergo Jesus“), I knew it would be fun. So I jumped directly to Giberson’s article before reading Coyne’s take. I’m starting to enjoy Giberson, he is as much funny as Jean Staune¹ [fr]

It may be weird to read a parable from a physicist based on the ability to somehow filter sounds as long as [you] know exactly how those [sounds] are produced. I certainly don’t own a Ph.D. in physics but I could teach Dr Giberson how to filter sounds without the slightest knowledge abut how they are produced. (hopefully Massimo Pigliucci will never know about it, else he may come and spank me for interfering with a domain non covered by my academic credentials).

But that’s just the parable within the parable. The smock screen intended to hide the main paradox Giberson is serving us: Many of us don’t like math, have no idea what it means to say that “equations rule the world,” and are thus not awed by math.
I do have a very clear idea about what it means to say that “equations rule the world”. That means that you are still in parable mode. Equations describe the world.

But there is a moral to Giberson’s entangled parables:

And the quest does not lead all of us who are awed by such mysteries into religion. But those that understand the eternal mystery best impulsively lean over the railing into the abyss because they know in their bones that there is something out there. Whether they encounter something depends on factors that elude many of their less imaginative peers. This is a deeply religious impulse: one that goes beyond science, but not one without motivation.

Brains are for science, bones for religion.
And… Dr Giberson must have seen The Abyss recently.

A genome-wide map of human genetic interactions inferred from radiation hybrid genotypes

A genome-wide map of human genetic interactions inferred from radiation hybrid genotypes
Andy Lin, Richard T. Wang, Sangtae Ahn, Christopher C. Park and Desmond J. Smith
Genome Res. 2010. 20: 1122-1132 doi: 10.1101/gr.104216.109

first thing first

made my head spin

I was just on the weird time machines after Oscar’s calendar. Came through a propeller clock and send the Link to Bora Z. He replied with this one :

He is the Master, no doubt.

My dear target audience know what a sucker I’m for x,y to θ,r. And my birthday.
All said.

Oscar Diaz Studio: Ink Calendar

This is from Charis Tsevis, who link to Gizmodo, where Jesus (I’m not kidding you) points to Dezeen’s post about Oscar Diaz’s Ink Calendar.